After I read this thread yesterday, I switched on the TV, zapped to MTV, and guess what? There she was! Is that spooky or not?
this video got my attention too, but not for the same reason. i didn’t notive her nipple…what i noticed was her cliche of a music video! i watched it in horror…she had it all. the ugly costumes, lines of dancers, close ups with red lipstick, and i can’t remember what-all else. when it came on again i turned the sound down so i could concentrate solely on the video to figure out what about it was so typical. it’s so typical it’s freakish. did anyone else get that?
I saw her (narf!) at Madame Toussaud’s wax museum and good golly is she tiny, almost unbelievably so. She was all dressed up in this little black dress. Although it wasn’t much to me, she’s not my type, other people seemed quite taken with her, lots of people snapping shots of themselves with her wax body.
Kylie M is the musical guest on Saturday Night Live tonight. (hosted by Gand-- I mean Sir Ian McKellen)
An acomplished theatre guy should have no problem w/ live TV.
I dont know how tall IM is, but KM looks tiny compared to him.
Commercial:
IM: Hello, I’m Ian McKellen and I will be hosting SNL tonight with musical guest KM
KM:Since your a knight, should I call you Sir Ian?
IM: (takes off glasses in a Giles like motion) You can just call me Sir
KM: Ooh!
Brian
The song is titled: Can’t Get You Out Of My Head
Osiris writes:
> I saw her (narf!) at Madame Toussaud’s wax museum and
> good golly is she tiny, almost unbelievably so.
Kylie Minogue is 5’1’. That’s only about two and a half inches less than the average. (The average adult American woman is 5’ 3.7" tall and the average adult American man is 5’ 9.1", and, no, the average in Australia isn’t much different.) I watched carefully on SNL tonight to make sure that’s her real height. Would you call a woman who’s 5’7" tall gigantic? This business of treating shortness as being freaky but tallness as being ordinary is blatant prejudice.
Well, being 6’5" I can’t help it if I find her tiny. My grandmother, at 4’10", and I consider her very tiny. And I don’t think I treated her as freaky, and certainly not because she was small, I would make the same comment if I were to find that Tom Hanks was 6’6", just reversed.
All of which is beside the point. What I meant by ‘almost unbelievably so’ was that in all the varying media forms in which I had seen her, she seemed well within the range of heights that I would find uncommentable. But when I saw her at the wax museum it surprised me and seemed out of place. Kinda like if Mr. T walked up to me and didn’t even make it to my pits. His persona on TV seems so large that finding he could walk under my outstretched arms would be so surprising that I would comment upon it.
Osiris writes:
> Kinda like if Mr. T walked up to me and didn’t even make it to
> my pits. His persona on TV seems so large that finding he could
> walk under my outstretched arms would be so surprising that I
> would comment upon it.
Mr. T does fit (approximately) under your outstretched arms. He’s 5’ 10", so he’s seven inches shorter than you. He’s not the one with an unusual height though. He’s still a bit taller than the average male. You’re the one with the unusual height. You’re either a fair amount taller than average, or a whole lot taller than average, depending on whether you’re male or female. And I still think that referring to people who are average height or only a little less as being “tiny” while treating the height of people who are actually much taller than average as not being worthy of comment is prejudice.
After close scrutiny, we’ve determined there’s no nipple, but that the double sided tape is very strategically placed indeed!
I’ve worked with dancers in risky outfits and you’d be surprised how much double sided tape is used.
The editing of that video look extremely careful too. I think nipple is suggested but not actually shown.
I just find it amazing that people in the US are only noticing Kylie NOW, I mean, she’s been around since I was a wee lassy, when we used to watch her in Neighbours, then her terrible music videos… then somewhere in the past two or three years she became a gay-male icon.
I can’t go clubbing without seeing a group of gay bois do the moves to “Can’t Get You Outta My Head”.
PS - I find her voice too nasally. Oh, and I’m only 5’1. So there.
So do I. But who cares about the voice? (I’m guessing that’s why stofsky and yojimbo turn the sound down.)
Well, I’m a female and somewhere between 5’9" and 5’10", and in heels I can be pushed up to 6’1". I’m certain there are plenty of guys (esp. with self-esteem issues) that may think of me as “freakishly tall.”
My mom’s 5’1", and I think that’s tiny, too.
I just don’t see where you’re going with “call short people short is prejudice” thing.
Speaking from personal experience, it was “Moulin Rouge” that did it for me. Just that little cameo was enough for me to hit IMDB to find out who the Green Fairy was. Rowf!
So she’s 5’, 1"? She looked smaller up on the screen. . .
easy e writes:
> I just don’t see where you’re going with “call short people
> short is prejudice” thing.
I said nothing of the sort. I said that saying that a woman who is 5’ 1" tall is “tiny, almost unbelievably so” is displaying prejudice. A man (well, I’m assuming he’s a man) like Osiris who is 6’ 5" is almost 8 inches taller than the average height for an adult American male. Kylie Minogue is less than 3 inches shorter than the average adult American female. I would have had no complaint if he had said that she was shorter than he expected. I object to the attitude that being somewhat shorter than average height is weird, almost freakish, while being considerably taller than the average is nothing to be remarked on.
I hear you, but will bring the following to your attention:
Bone structure. Some people will appear smaller than they actually are because of their delicate bone structure.
There is a girl at work who is 5’3", yet looks a lot tinier because she is so delicate.
I don’t think remarking on something like that is displaying prejudice. People will look smaller in person than on TV. TV images are always somewhat distorted because of the screen ratio (which I can’t remember ATM) so people are often surprised when meeting people they have only seen on TV before.
Ooops!
Didn’t mean to resurrect an old thread like that. I was searching for something, ended up reading this thread among others and replied without thinking.
Hope this doesn’t p*ss off too many Dopers and especially Mods and Admins! 